Word Finder - patient

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A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.

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(grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.

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The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.

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One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

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(of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.

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Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.

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Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.

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patient endeavour

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Physically able to suffer or bear.

You need to be patient and give him a little space.

He'd have to be patient with her.

They'd been patient, setting up their ultimate victory over the course of tens of thousands of years.

When she is older I will teach her many things if she is patient and obedient.

Dorothy was surprised to find how patient the people were, for her own little heart was beating rapidly with excitement.

But I tried very hard to be patient for teacher's sake.

I think you are very kind and patient, and I love you very dearly.

Finally she met his patient gaze.

I'll try to be more patient.

Hadn't she been patient while he stayed with his mother?

You're a terrible patient, you know that?

My teacher says, if children learn to be patient and gentle while they are little, that when they grow to be young ladies and gentlemen they will not forget to be kind and loving and brave.

He was patient, still dealing with his own anger issues.

I am a patient person by nature and fully expected to later take them one or two at a time.

It definitely wasn't because he was the most patient of the three brothers.

I guess he wasn't the ideal patient so the doctors weren't inclined to put up much of a fuss.

The patient becomes collapsed, and the skin is cold and clammy.

Please ask him/her to treat a patient.

Shipton's traveling companion, Penelope Something, hysterically filled in what little she knew to Jake Weller and Emile Corday, both of whom visited the patient at the hospital.

He was calm and patient as always, but she wasn't about to piss off her last friend on the planet.

He wasn't a patient creature, whatever he was.

As powerful and patient as he was, he wouldn't hesitate to lay waste to anything between them.

No definite advantage from the patient's point of view has been demonstrated by the use of tubes and nasal packing.

We present a patient who developed both these complications after biopsy of nasal polyps which subsequently proved to be an inverted papilloma.

Surgeon John Walmsley, assisted by nurse Abby Hodges perform a tie-back on this patient with laryngeal paralysis.

The breakfast room had cleared out an hour before, but the patient matriarch kept her coffee cup full and left her alone.

Most of these were simple records of patient and laborious analytical operations, and it is perhaps surprising that among all the substances he analysed he only detected two new elements - beryllium (1798) in beryl and chromium (1797) in a red lead ore from Siberia.

The early stages of a mental disorder were beginning to show in the patient.

His great work, Britannia Romana, or the Roman Antiquities of Britain (London, 1732), one of the scarcest and most valuable of its class, contains the result of patient labour.

If the patient survives the coma, recovery is complete and as a rule rapid, without secondary symptoms.

The same patient investigator gave his New Documents on Andre Chenier to the world in 1875.

At the head of a hundred thousand men he showed, besides the large grasp of strategy which planned the Carolinas march, besides the patient skill in manoeuvre which gained ground day by day towards Atlanta, the strength of will which sent his men to the hopeless assault of Kenesaw to teach them that he was not afraid to fight, and cleared Atlanta of its civil population in the face of a bitter popular outcry.

He took a leading part in the settlement of the dockers' strike in the autumn of 1889, and his patient and effectual action on this and on similar occasions secured for him the esteem and affection of great numbers of working men, so that his death on the 14th of January 1892, and his funeral a week later, were the occasion for a remarkable demonstration of popular veneration.

After a minute the muscles relax, and the patient sinks back exhausted, consciousness being preserved throughout.

The campaign of 1415, with its brilliant conclusion at Agincourt (October 25), was only the first step. Two years of patient preparation followed.

Being composed largely of red clays and laterite, the soil is not generally rich, and calls for the patient cultivation of the Chinese gardener to make it really productive.

As the result of the patient and masterly organization of the "young Turks," combined with the universal discontent with the rule of the sultan and the palace camarilla, the impossible seemed to be achieved, and the heterogeneous elements composing the Ottoman empire to be united in the desire to establish a unified state on the constitutional model of the West.

A violent paroxysm of asthma may be arrested by the administration of morphine subcutaneously, but the practice should not be continued, as there is great danger in a chronic disease that the patient may become the victim of morphinism.

Morphine is a sheet anchor in the later stages of cancer and other painful diseases, rendering the life of the patient one of comparative comfort.

The early stages of morphinism are marked by moral degeneration; the patient seems to lose all sense of right and wrong, and will lie most plausibly and even thieve to obtain the drug; personal disorderliness, disregard of time, neglect of business and decline of family affection become soon evident.

While not directly causing death, morphinism so lowers the bodily powers that the patient is easily carried off by some intercurrent malady.

Her first living patient was a shepherd's dog.

The pulse-rate becomes very rapid, the extremities become warm, so that the patient is obliged to wear few clothes, the temper becomes irritable, the patient nervous, and a fine tremor is observed in the hands.

Every means must be taken to keep the patient awake.

If this is ever accomplished it will need the patient investigation of a number of empirical observations by competent students unbiassed by any parti pris - a difficult set of conditions to obtain; and even then no definite results may be achieved.

He was so sweet - so patient.

Medical staff always keep referring clinicians informed of their patient's progress by sending reports at least every four weeks.

The patient should sit upright and bite against a clean rolled up linen handkerchief for about half an hour.

Prostatic neoplasms; Patient Education; Prostate health A series of patient oriented documents about prostate health.

Sensory Fusion Present each eye with different stimulus If sensory fusion intact - patient will report a combined percept.